Political Prairie Fire

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452911231
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Prairie Fire by : Robert Loren Morlan

Download or read book Political Prairie Fire written by Robert Loren Morlan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Prairie Fire was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Political Prairie Fire was first published in 1955. The farmers of North Dakota were ripe for revolt when the magnetic figure of A. C. Townley strode into their midst and offered them a new political formula to redress their grievances. Townley's plan was simple but revolutionary; it called for the formation of a Nonpartisan Political League dedicated to the election of candidates through the established two-party system and to a platform emphasizing public ownership of certain vital farm services and facilities, such as terminal grain elevators and hail insurance on crops. Like the great prairie fires of the plains states, the political flames of the Nonpartisan League spread swiftly from one farm to the next across North Dakota and into the adjoining states. The League is regarded by many as the last of the great agrarian protest movements. It is historically significant because it achieved a measure of success well beyond that of most similar movements. It controlled the government of one state for some years, elected state officials and legislators in a number of midwestern and western states, and sent several congressmen to Washington. Its impact helped shape the destinies of a dozen states and the political philosophies of an important segment of the nation's voters. The League's methods of operation often serve today as a guide for political action. This is the first detailed, unbiased history of the Nonpartisan League. Thoroughly documented for the specialist, it is nevertheless equally interesting for the general reader.

Nonpartisan Leaguers in Minnesota

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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Book Synopsis Nonpartisan Leaguers in Minnesota by : Ralph Lee Kloske

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The Nonpartisan League

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Total Pages : 344 pages
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Book Synopsis The Nonpartisan League by : Herbert Earle Gaston

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The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625846479
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota by : Elizabeth Dorsey Hatle

Download or read book The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota written by Elizabeth Dorsey Hatle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnesota might not seem like an obvious place to look for traces of Ku Klux Klan parade grounds, but this northern state was once home to fifty-one chapters of the KKK. Elizabeth Hatle tracks down the history of the Klan in Minnesota, beginning with the racially charged atmosphere that produced the tragic 1920 Duluth lynchings. She measures the influence the organization wielded at the peak of its prominence within state politics and tenaciously follows the careers of the Klansmen who continued life in the public sphere after the Hooded Order lost its foothold in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.

Insurgent Democracy

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022628364X
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Book Synopsis Insurgent Democracy by : Michael J. Lansing

Download or read book Insurgent Democracy written by Michael J. Lansing and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counted over 250,000 paying members, spread to thirteen states and two Canadian provinces, controlled North Dakota’s state government, and birthed new farmer-labor alliances. Yet today it is all but forgotten, neglected even by scholars. Michael J. Lansing aims to change that. Insurgent Democracy offers a new look at the Nonpartisan League and a new way to understand its rise and fall in the United States and Canada. Lansing argues that, rather than a spasm of populist rage that inevitably burned itself out, the story of the League is in fact an instructive example of how popular movements can create lasting change. Depicting the League as a transnational response to economic inequity, Lansing not only resurrects its story of citizen activism, but also allows us to see its potential to inform contemporary movements.

The Nonpartisan Leader

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book The Nonpartisan Leader written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Progressive Era in Minnesota, 1899-1918

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Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis The Progressive Era in Minnesota, 1899-1918 by : Carl Henry Chrislock

Download or read book The Progressive Era in Minnesota, 1899-1918 written by Carl Henry Chrislock and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking study of the Progressive movement traces its rise and decline in Minnesota, its link with the Granger, Farmers Alliance, Populist, and Nonpartisan League traditions, and the tragic divisions created by World War I.

The Leaders of the Nonpartisan League

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Total Pages : 136 pages
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Nonpartisan Leader, Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League

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Total Pages : 466 pages
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The Nonpartisan League

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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis The Nonpartisan League by : William Langer

Download or read book The Nonpartisan League written by William Langer and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dubious Alliance

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816613249
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis Dubious Alliance by : John Earl Haynes

Download or read book Dubious Alliance written by John Earl Haynes and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubious Alliance was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The formation of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party of Minnesota took place in a context of intense factional struggle that lasted from the death of Governor Floyd B. Olson in 1936 to the election of Hubert Humphrey to the U.S. Senate in 1948. Dubious Alliance, the first full account of this critical chapter in the state's political history, has wider significance not only because many of the leading figures in the story have played a role in national politics, but also because it deals with issues—chief among them, the origins of Cold War liberalism— that matter far beyond the boundaries of a single state. John Haynes follows the struggle from its inception to the postwar battle within the new DFL between Popular Front adherents and anti-Communist liberals led by Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey. He makes clear that the struggle with the Popular Front was the formative political experience of Humphrey's generation; those who fought with him, and who became active in national politics—Orville Freeman, Eugene McCarthy, Walter Mondale, Donald Fraser—did not seriously question Cold War foreign policy till well into the Vietnam era. Thorough and dispassionate, this book will help today's readers better understand the DFL's birth and the struggle that surrounded it—complex events long obscured by Cold War fears and political myth-making. John Earl Haynes is a historian by training—he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota—and also a specialist in tax policy. He was an adviser to Governor Wendell Anderson and later served as a congressional aide to Anderson and to Representative Martin Sabo. Haynes is now Director of Tax and Credit Analysis for the state of Minnesota.

Sons of the Wild Jackass

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ISBN 13 : 9781946163127
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (631 download)

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Book Synopsis Sons of the Wild Jackass by : Terry I. Shoptaugh

Download or read book Sons of the Wild Jackass written by Terry I. Shoptaugh and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon Bonaparte once told his courtiers that true leadership required the ability to inspire those who would follow. "A leader is a dealer in hope," he insisted. This kind of leadership inspired farmers of North Dakota to form the Nonpartisan League in 1915. Stirred by charismatic leaders--including a stem-winding speaker who told his lieutenants to lie to the farmers when it helped the cause, a future governor who would survive a series of scandals, and a talented lawyer who was perpetually threatened by debt--the League sparked similar actions in neighboring states. The League's best times were brief, but what the members achieved influenced national legislation and programs that aid American farmers to this day.Drawing upon newspapers, interviews, and collections of private papers, Sons of the Wild Jackass uses ground-level perspectives to tell the story of the League.

A Union Against Unions

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Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873514996
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (149 download)

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Book Synopsis A Union Against Unions by : William Millikan

Download or read book A Union Against Unions written by William Millikan and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history and analysis of the Minneapolis Citizens Alliance, a union of Minneapolis business owners, in their campaign against organized labor. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Main Street

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Publisher : First Avenue Editions TM
ISBN 13 : 1728468884
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Book Synopsis Main Street by : Sinclair Lewis

Download or read book Main Street written by Sinclair Lewis and published by First Avenue Editions TM. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.

The Story of the Nonpartisan League

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Total Pages : 376 pages
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Book Synopsis The Story of the Nonpartisan League by : Charles Edward Russell

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A History of Minnesota

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Total Pages : 670 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of Minnesota by : William Watts Folwell

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Insurgent Democracy

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643477X
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Book Synopsis Insurgent Democracy by : Michael J. Lansing

Download or read book Insurgent Democracy written by Michael J. Lansing and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counted over 250,000 paying members, spread to thirteen states and two Canadian provinces, controlled North Dakota’s state government, and birthed new farmer-labor alliances. Yet today it is all but forgotten, neglected even by scholars. Michael J. Lansing aims to change that. Insurgent Democracy offers a new look at the Nonpartisan League and a new way to understand its rise and fall in the United States and Canada. Lansing argues that, rather than a spasm of populist rage that inevitably burned itself out, the story of the League is in fact an instructive example of how popular movements can create lasting change. Depicting the League as a transnational response to economic inequity, Lansing not only resurrects its story of citizen activism, but also allows us to see its potential to inform contemporary movements.